Reconceptualising Trauma Treatment

  • The dropout rate from trauma focused treatments (TFTs), in randomised controlled trials is 1 in 4
  • With a 50% recovery rate, but in routine practice only the tip-of-the iceberg recover
  • TFTs are not user-friendly for clinicians or clients, as the latter rarely want to re-live their trauma
  • But there is a new way forward – gradually daring the client to think and behave as they did pre-trauma. At the same time challenging the relevance of the intrusive memories to what they might do today. That is, changing the window through which they view themselves and their personal world.

The Powerpoint presentation below highlights this different pathway:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zh3owqemrdh4vcac7j14o/Reconceptualising-Trauma-Treatment-2025.pdf?rlkey=0rwfvr5djghnag5tt8n5zu49m&st=qk09aany&dl=0

Scott, M.J (2022) Personalising Trauma Treatment: Reframing and Reimagining London: Routledge and

Scott,M.J (2024) Moving On After Trauma 2nd Edition London: Rutledge

Dr Mike Scott